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Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009 with 41 to follow. The moon is waxing.

Estelle loves Violet. That's Estelle Parsons , the indomitable, Oscar-winning actor who is playing Violet Weston, the pill-popping, booze-swigging, acid-tongue matriarch of an Oklahoma family that is imploding over the disappearance of Violet's husband at the start of "August: Osage County." Violet Weston is the engine that propels Tracy Letts' ...

Photo by Robert J. Saferstein. It's only on for the rest of the week, so you'll have to hurry, but as far as seeing theatre in this town goes, getting tickets to August: Osage County is about the best favour you could do yourself this year.

Laurence Lau has been keeping very busy this year since being cast on the national tour of August: Osage County .

Shannon Cochran, left, Jeff Still and Estelle Parsons are shown in a scene from August: Osage County, which opens for a short run at Toronto's Canon Theatre on Thursday.

Home : Entertainment : 'August: Osage County' makes Canadian debut tonight in Toronto 'August: Osage County' makes Canadian debut tonight in Toronto Date: Thursday Nov.

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For all her awards and accomplishments, esteemed actress Estelle Parsons still feels like she isn't doing enough.

Cartman becomes a network honcho when he and the boys launch a morning news show on the school's closed-circuit TV station.

Cartman becomes a network honcho when he and the boys launch a morning news show on the school's closed-circuit TV station.

Cartman becomes a network honcho when he and the boys launch a morning news show on the school's closed-circuit TV station.

Cartman becomes a network honcho when he and the boys launch a morning news show on the school's closed-circuit TV station.

All Roseanne and Jackie need for their sandwich shop is a loan; Darlene catches D.J. peeping at Molly .

By far the movie's gravest insult to posterity, however, is its treatment of the Texas Ranger captain, Frank Hamer, who may have been instrumental in bringing them down.

She smokes cigarettes, pops pills, tosses tantrums and dumps verbal abuse on her three daughters, their ineffectual husbands, her sister, brother-in-law and granddaughter.

By far the movie's gravest insult to posterity, however, is its treatment of the Texas Ranger captain, Frank Hamer, who may have been instrumental in bringing them down.

The national touring production of "August: Osage County." First things first: Yes, it is all that.

I'm not getting paid for this but I'm going to shill because live theater needs to be promoted.

Q: I remember a movie from the 1970s, I think. It was about a white middle-class family and the husband wakes up one morning and he has become a black man.

Roseanne 3:00AM - 3:30AM Dan builds a boat for a future adventure, while David plans a trip to Europe.